Piano Recital II – Peter Pažický
Sonata for piano Alexander Moyzes is the work of a young composer. It is a solitaire of its kind within the Slovak classical composer's oeuvre and was written as a revision of Seven Pieces for Piano. Bela Bartók's Sonata** is a largely experimental work in the field of harmony, or sonority, metre-rhythm and the use of the instrument. The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski was also close to experimentation - but not purposeful experimentation.** He was an admirer of the poetics of the 'impressionists', but during his travels he also absorbed the poetics of Arabic and Middle Eastern cultures. In the Third Piano Sonata, however, he partly returned to the classical ideal. While Leoš Janáček did not favour the sonata genre in his work, Sonata 1. X. 1905 is a unique and extremely expressive title of this kind.
